Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2010

Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

The new feature uses lyrics provided by Musixmatch, and will be shown in the song’s language. Where available, users can access them by tapping the “lyrics” card at the bottom of the service’s “Now Playing” screen. Lyrics have a complicated history on Spotify.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). We need domestic copyright exemptions so that local communities can scan the books they need in their languages.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Solve language and syntax puzzles from just a few examples. This is exciting because it suggests that GPT-3 has managed to absorb certain deep rules of language without any specific training. Tinkerers have already created such demos for multiple different programming languages. Look at the entire video. This is mind blowing.

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